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  • Spoken like a non engineer trying to justify bad life decisions. Calulas was far more valuable to me than the spanish I took.

    language does not give perspective. It makes it a little easier to consume some content or talk to some people. However if you don't put forth the effort you won't get that, mean while if you care to put forth the effort you don't need to speak other languages to get perspectives. there are more perspectives from native english speakers than you will be able to consume

  • Why? There is more great content in english than I could ever watch. and far more garbage as well af course. I could learn a language, but why?

    i'm okay with spanish, it did me no good when I was in germany.

  • That won't work for human reasons: few people will remember to lock the car that way at night-

  • That is what they used, but so much is needed that despite being easy to make it wasn't available in large enough quantity. You get it by the basket, what you need is train loads.

  • The fuel it takes to run a forge wasn't common so you are still stuck.

  • Most seeds are not steril. Farmers wish they were as hybrids never breed true.

  • Not that easy. Sure you could kill ceaser, but you can't kill everyone who might take offense. you can be killed in you sleep. you can be killed by a mob as eventually someone gets through.

  • Don't touch it. Anything you do will ensure that you and a signification percent of congress will be voted out.

  • Getting a gun requires background checks. Buying ammo requires an ID for age verification. You can bypass the system, but that applies to cars too.

  • Most safes are not that good. If you study lock picking you can break most combination locks quickly (looking at fingerprints will often narrow down the possible numbers to try to 30 seconds to break in).

  • @Shkshkshk yes, but there isn't a good way to find them yet. And even when you find them, they are all on different instances that don't federate and so you can't subscribe to them from one place.

  • i last looked into this about 20 years ago. I concluded I could make it work but I don't use wine enough to bother.

  • What should we do? Hamas kidnapped a bunch of people and is still holding them hostage. Hamas has been launching missiles at civilians for decades now.

    Israel is not without guilt, but the everyone else [with any power] is at least as bad.

    There are no good answers. All options are bad. The only question is what is the least bad, and that seems to be supporting Israel while putting pressure on them to stop settlements and be careful about non-Hamas civilians. Not a good option, but the is nothing else that is better. (including walking away from the whole region)

  • Sure, when linux loads are process it follows a standard procedure to see how to run the file. If the file has ELF markers it runs the process via the ELF loader. If the file has #! as the first then it uses a different process to run that script. (I doubt a.out executable format is supported anymore, but that at least used to be an option). There is no reason you cannot hack this process to detect windows executable and then use wine to load/run the application. I'm not sure why nobody has done this, but the basic things have been supported in linux for decades.

  • Anyone who isn't going to live there for very long - there are a lot of costs to selling a house, while renters can just move out at the end of their lease. Some of this is risk management - house values sometimes go down, eventually they tend to go up (hopefully tracking inflation long term - often more but I agree with those who say this is not sustainable). The real gains of owning a house don't come until you have been there for a few years: your payment stays the same while inflation means you get more income (eventually many pay it off) ; and you can reconfigure it to fit your personal needs. A good rule of thumb is if you won't live there for 7 years you should rent.

    If you are good with tools you can save a lot of money doing your own labor - fixing your house can be a good hobby for some. However if that doesn't describe you then renters mean someone else deals with all the contractors to repair things which can be nice.

    In the end everyone has a different situation so there is no common rule. You need to figure out what is right for your situation (some of which is only a guess!) and trust that others figured right for theirs despite coming up with different answers.

  • The whole goal of those changes is tough love to fix all the problems, so short term problems but in 2 years things improve for the better.

    Administrations don't have near as much control over the short term as you seem to think.

  • Tenants breaking rules drives up the cost of rent for the good ones. When a landlord expects to have expensive maintenance (patching holes...) that gets priced into the cost of rent. If supply and demand doesn't allow getting that much rent then they will sell and then no more landlords at all. Renting a house is the best option for some people, so we need landlords. Therefore we need them to make a small profit.

  • Culture will not allow a man to report being raped - there is a large double standard in play. Nobody will believes you would refuse sex with any female who wants it - even fundamentalists Christians won't believe you while calling the girl a slut. The police are less likely to take you seriously if you do try (and many do not take rape seriously). Even if the second is not true where you live, the first almost certainly is.

    As such we don't have good statistics. (We also have reason to believe women typically will not report being raped)

  • Tenants are no better, and so there needs to be a balance. We need both landlord and tenant rights. They are in conflict, but the world needs both (remember that public housing just makes government the landlord)